Bureau

Bureau

Aisha Down

Aisha has hiked in the mountains of nine countries. She works as a translator for the Cambodian poet Tararith Kho. Aisha is a Physics and English student at Harvard University, where she has made significant improvements in her Carl Sagan impression, if not in her comprehension of the proper use of em dashes or the Oxford comma. She reads Coetzee and David Foster Wallace, tells awful jokes, and frequently repeats herself when she gets excited. In her free time, Aisha enjoys eating breakfast and getting into arguments.

Aleks Trawczynska

Ever since she can remember, Aleks has always wanted to be a mage, a mermaid, a Chinese princess, or the leader of a rebellion in a post-apocalyptic world. Preferably, at the same time. It took her a while to realise the only way to make her dreams come true is through writing. Now as a student of English Literature and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University, she is finally on the right path to become who she wishes to be: a dream weaver, able to manipulate space and construct whole universes, transforming from one character to another.

Alex Costley

Alex currently studies creative writing and draws much of his inspiration from the sea. If it weren’t biologically impossible, he would swear that saltwater runs in his veins instead of blood. In his spare time he sails, surfs, and climbs things that probably shouldn’t be climbed.

Alice Rhodes

Alice is an English Literature student at Hertford College, Oxford, a writer, a dreamer and a procrastinator. She writes about those you pass on the street; all those lives which happen behind strange faces. She dreams about stories written and unwritten. She procrastinates by and from writing.

Amanda Bigler

Amanda is a first year PhD student at Loughborough University studying contemporary American and British literature. She has an MA in English from Loughborough University, and a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Kansas. She is an American national, but is currently residing in the UK.

Chris Kenning

Claire Harrill

Claire is a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a mystery wrapped in a puzzle wrapped in a layer of subcutaneous fat mainly derived from furiously comfort eating chocolate raisins at 3am, wrapped in foil for freshness for your reading pleasure.

Daniel Bowman

Daniel is currently studying English Literature and Creative Writing at Northumbria University. His favourite writers include John Steinbeck, James Joyce…and Nick Hornby. His favourite joke is: How do turn a duck into a soul singer? Put it in the microwave until it’s Bill Withers. He also does some scriptwriting and poetry.

Elliot Brooks

Elliot once stabbed a man in Brooklyn. It wasn’t pretty. Since then he has evolved as a person and now practises charity, love, and only the lighter high treasons. He writes in between his various inter-galactic loving making sessions with big bosomed alien vixens, who definitely really exist. Usually he writes satire, but every now and then he writes a story about two men in a shed with itchy scrotal sacks. If you want more of his writing please send money to his current kidnapper Queen Elizabeth II, with an attached note specifying which prisoner you are referring to. And now my – his – hand hurts.

Emily Jane Stedman

Emily Jane has just completed her first year at Brunel University, studying creative writing, but having lost a lot of sleep to the dream of becoming a puppeteer, she is now pursuing her ambitions at Central School of Speech and Drama. That said, she has not hung up her pen yet. Inspired by political satire, surrealist comedy and Rowan Atkinson’s ‘Edmund Blackadder’, she takes great pleasure in writing fiction based on fact. Conversely, she is not much of a poet, but you can’t win ’em all. When not writing, you’ll find EJ steeped in literature and enthralled by gin, or manhandling Muppets. Incidentally, the above was penned in George Orwell’s local; a true artist.

Emma Levinkind

Emma is ostensibly studying geography at Hertford College, Oxford. She’s a grammatical pedant, and hates it when people manage to somehow split infinitives, misplace apostrophe’s, and end sentences with prepositions; it can’t be put up with. She also dislikes pretentious self-referential grammar jokes.

School in London and writes for her student newspaper, Nouse. In her spare time she enjoys long-distance running, playing tennis and of course reading and writing. Her favourite writers include Khaled Hosseini, Thomas Hardy and E.E Cummings. She writes both prose and poetry.

Holly Duerden

Holly was born in Shrewsbury, brought up in mid Wales and now lives in Rutland. She has just completed her BA at Loughborough, where she will continue to study her MA. All these places have absolutely no connection with

Jennifer Hayhurst

Jenny is a student of French and German at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She has a superhuman capacity for chocolate, an uncanny ability to dramatically injure herself through everyday activities, and a habit of slipping into a misty-eyed nostalgic Gloucestershire accent when talking about cider or farms. When she’s not pretending to be knowledgeable about languages, she enjoys going running, baking

Joshua Baldwin

After much leaping from subject to subject, Joshua Baldwin has finally decided to finish his Archaeology and Ancient History Course at Merton college Oxford. Joshua was born without the ability to spell or even speak and has made only limited progress in each of those areas throughout the years. Writing stories makes his head hurt; but he persists in the hope that one day he might be paid to tell other people about his daydreams.

Karl Hartland

Karl was born on the sea but suffers from mal de mer. He has worked with platinum and gold but is not a rich man. He has a history with radio but doesn’t broadcast it. He reads, he writes, he digs and he dogs, in Norwich.

Kirstie Smith

Kirstie is a third-year historian at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. In her free time (of which there is precious little) she reads, writes and draws, as well as practicing archery. She likes exploring the strange, the weird and the wonderful for inspiration, from philosophy to the depths of history to present-day science. There’s plenty out there if you know where to look!

Kirsty Capes

Kirsty is a second year Creative Writing student at Brunel University in Uxbridge who is also a roller-skating instructor and teaches Creative Writing part-time. She writes for various online publications such as Candid and Flickering Myth. A lot of Kirsty’s writing critiques feminism and sexism in today’s media and popular culture. Kirsty also writes film and music reviews. Besides writing and blogging, she is an avid reader and enjoy gaming, movies and bananas in custard. She also has a teapot collection of which she is extremely fond. Kirsty lives in South West London with her family and Lily, her German Shepherd.

Lacey Burns

Lacey is a master’s student at the University of St. Andrews. She finds time to write in between studying, dancing tango, playing guitar, and practicing martial arts. She’s an avid connoisseur of books and coffee, and her favourite authors include Wallace Stegner, Jorge Luis Borges, and Ernest Hemingway.